>> bret: finally tonight, a special day. >> listen, he brought it over. it's like you could just put your hands through the fence and just my god. it's so shiny. it's so real. it's so amazing. >> bret: the eagles have landed back in philadelphia after winning super bowl lix against the kansas city chiefs. players receiving hero's welcome by adoring fans. it comes after the major celebrations last night in philadelphia. city crews working flight clean up the streets. a parade for the super bowl champion also take place this friday. congratulations to the eagles. tomorrow on "special report," defense secretary pete hegseth heads to nato his first foreign trip. we got you covered, fair, balanced and still unafraid. thanks for tuning in tonight. "the ingraham angle" is now. ♪ >> laura: good evening, everyone. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. as always, thank you for joining us. break moments ago, the justice

department is moving to dismiss federal charges against new york city mayor eric adams. more on that in moments. but, first, a pen and a phone. that's the focus of tonight's angle. ♪ all right. they say that when you are in quick sand, the worst thing you can do is flail about. [shouting] >> laura: terrifying. and the same ugly fate is befalling today's democratic party. >> we have to be able to have the stomach to stand up to this would be dictator that is running roughshod all over our government right now through elon musk. >> y'all know he likes the pal around with putin, right? he is trying to turn us into russia. but i've got news for him. we, the people, will not go!

>> laura: instead of calmly examining their own political trouble, necessary tweaks or adjustments, democrats are just dispatching the most radical players to make the same failed points that didn't work in 2024. but, now, instead of just trump being an evil despot, well, elon musk is one, too. >> every time you hear doge, the department of government efficiency, you just remember it the department of government evil. this will be a congressional fight and constitutional fight, a legal fight and on days like this, a street fight. we have got to meet the wickedness where it is. leave federal employees alone. >> laura: threatening fights in the street are they? okay. well, only in the insane liberal clown posse world would volunteering to save taxpayers

billions of dollars, which is what musk is doing, could in any way be considered wicked. but democrats feel that they have found their footing with vox proclaiming their anti-trump resistance may finally be waking up focused on musk's methodical and swift disembowing of federal democracy. leah greenberg a top organizer has said if you don't create friction then the american people don't understand exexactly how bad and how dangerous this is who are burrowed into every agency your fight my fight and we will win this fight. are you ready to say no to elon musk? >> yes. >> are we going to fight? >> are we going to win? >> yes. >> is this our country?

>> yes. >> laura: shrieking for big government. well today it was the consumer financial protection bureau which gets its funding via the federal reserve. now, to give a sense of how partisan that place has become, in december its chief rushed to file several lawsuits against the payment platform zelle, j.p. morgan chase, bank of america and wells fargo alleging this amorphous failure to protect consumers. it's ridiculous. and it amounts to another shakedown of business by anti-capitalist crusaders. that's all it is. think of it this way. the same democrats who caused inflation to skyrocket and who hid biden's decline, they now want you to think that they care about protecting your bottom line. and as for their sudden concern with the use they had any

problem with their hero, barack obama, flexed his article 2 powers: legislation. in order to make sure that we're providing americans the kind of help that they need. i got a pen and i have got a phone. can i use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward. >> laura: i got a pen, i got a phone. well, the press and democrats loved it, right? because that was quintessential obama cool under pressure. and, of course, democrats cheered when joe biden used executive orders to wipe away billions in student loan debt. othe courts ultimately hopped in to hobble the biden move. warren and schumer didn't care at all. back then, they were not only not complaining about the executive orders, they pushed biden to issue them. and she even put out a press release about it.

so, so trump right now is just following precedent. is he doing exactly what the democrats supported four years. >> we're actually getting rid of a few programs that are just a waste. just really a waste. >> laura: now, liberals are up in arms when trump uses his own executive authority after campaigning and winning on platform to cut government waste? it's hypocrisy. and it's a hyperbole alert. >> what we are witness something a constitutional crisis. >> this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced. certainly since watergate. the president is attempting to seize control of power and for corrupt purposes. this is a red alert moment when this entire country has to understand that our democracy is at risk. >> laura: now, imagine having that guy, chris murphy as your senator? it's my home state of my old home state of connecticut, it breaks my heart. so your state is sinking.

it's bleeding manufacturing jobs due to high taxes in connecticut and a terrible antibusiness climate, and murphy's answer to all of that is trump's a threat to democracy. yeah. it's a propaganda loop. we have heard it for years. "the washington post" columnist e.j. deion is laying it on thick describing trump with the a-word authoritarian. do they have amnesia? do they not recall what happened last time they went down this road? >> trump won't hold autocrats accountable not only did he not win the election. >> cbs poll finds majority of americans. ever reach his first term in the white house. more popular than ever.

instead of demanding answers irresponsible bureaucrats. what the. hassle those bringing the twees light. >> starting to find out some of the programs. sex change operation unless guatemala, lgbtq programs in serbia. >> the u.s. government does not fund sex change operations or fund hamas. you know that though. >> that is not true, margaret. i couldn't get the secretary of state, i asked him three times to tell me that they we were not funding hamas through usaid they couldn't do it. >> these anchors supposed to care about thoughts at all. >> hagerty schooled cbs. yeah, that's the headline there. why was their investigating teams at cbs, abc, all the networks why weren't they uncovering the waste that musk has found. aren't there things called foia requests? don't they care? and don't democrats also want to be known as good stewards of the

taxpayer money? or do they think they can grow their base, improve their appeal to young and minority voters by being the protectors of the bureaucracy? of dei of climate change give aways? that's going to party? look, no one seriously thinks trump and musk are trying to tear down democracy. no one. but, most americans sure want them to tear down the bureaucracy. and the more evidence of waste that musk and his team uncovered, the more powerful the argument for a major down sizing of federal spending. and this is what democrats and their media poodles truly fear. they fear an informed electorate, the curtain pulled back, and the corruption exposed. and that's the angle. and now an unelected obama judge in rhode island must be feeling very full of himself tonight. ruling issued earlier today e railed against president trump and the doge crew for failing to comply with his order, one

judge's order, to unfreeze federal spending. judge sanjay mcconnell handed it down after 22 blue states just were up in arms that funding hadn't been restored. of course, they went for the sympathy play, citing hiv services in the congo and a public health grant to namibia. the trump team had overstepped its executive authority by halting the money. but if one judge, one, is going to have the power to stop the trump cleanup crew in its tracks, don't you think we should know a little bit more about him? and, yeah, it's as bad as you would imagine. mcconnell once served as treasurer of the rhode island democratic state committee and he donated more than 100 k to liberal democrats, including to biden, to hillary, to the dnc, and a really hefty chunk of cash to the democrat congressional campaign committee. the list goes on and on.

so, again, this is an unbiased jurist. this is someone who has the power to keep scrolling, guys, have the power to do, what? to issue a nationwide injunction and stop a duly elected president to do what the voters elected him to do. it is a scandal. mike lee of the judiciary committee, former supreme court law clerk, senator, in total, more than 40 lawsuits have already been filed against the trump administration. you and i predicted. this we knew this was coming. and some of the adverse rulings have come even from a few republicans appointees. i want to focus on this judge in rhode island in particular. should the white house, in your estimation, have you looked at the pleadings, prevail on the merits here? >> yes. i believe the white house will prevail on the merits of this case. and of the other cases that are now pending, look, laura, it's important to remember, this is

entirely within the purview of the executive branch. what they're looking to do elon musk and the doge crew are going in looking for waste, fraws and abuse. look to ferret out ways we can stop this problem. it's $26 trillion in debt with no easy way out. so, the fact that they are doing. this and they are doing it within what the law allows, this is where democrats get upset. and they go running to the courts. they having lost in the court of public opinion. having lost elections. they are now going to try their hand at litigating and picking off a few liberal one of off judges here and there in order to slow the process down. make no mistake, laura. we're not going to win. the right side of this is going to prevail. this is a matter of delay as brief as possible. >> laura: the other issue for a lot of americans, they are very confused about how a single district court judge in a forum like the first circuit, which

covers a lot of these new england states ask actually grind a president's agenda to a halt and who ultimately would put an end to this? would the supreme court ultimately rule on this. unlikely probably get a law. -- be able to get a law through congress, i don't know ending national injunctions? this has got to stop. this is insanity. >> one would hope, laura. when these orders first started coming out a couple of days ago. i immediately on x mike lee account exroshed writ of mandamus a way of stopping abusive action by a district judge midstream the courts of appeal could say do that if necessary setter year, to get the whole case expedited before the u.s. supreme court expect

pam bondi and her lawyers at the department of justice will consider all these options election of november 2024. >> laura: you have a seattle judge and d.c. district judge karl nicoles who clerked for our former boss justin thomas. rhode island judge, a couple reagan appointees you have a judge that came out for transgender inmates. another ruling on that was filed on behalf of pregnant illegals on birthright citizenship. so these are coming fast and furious. and the goal here is to just slow it down. so people get demoralized and i guess they go back to, what, business as usual? i don't think the trump team is about business as usual in they are not about business as usual as all. that's why i anticipate these delay also last more than a few days maybe a week or two. there is no there there.

what they are trying to do entirely lawful. within the scope of presidential authority. therefore the authority of what president trump has asked doge to do talented people undertake efforts on our behalf and i wish them every success in doing this. trump's lawyers push back hard and make sure that these judges don't get in the way because you are exactly right. they want to delay this. hoping it will go away. we are not going away. the effort is not going to end. >> laura: senator, the first court of appeals. people watching in this is not a continuing legal he would occasion course. but, the first circuit of appeals is five democratic appointees, right? that's the appellate point from these district courts decisions in boston and rhode island. and they are going to go up to the first second there are no republicans on the first second now. correct, mike? >> yeah.

that's my understanding as well. and, look, you don't always -- you're not always able to predict the outcome, based on which president appointed them. sometimes can you get a pretty good guess. if they don't get what they need there go to the supreme court and seek the relief there senator so great to have you on tonight. fox news alert. one person dead. others injured after two private planes collided at the scottsdale airport in arizona we're going to monitor this story and bring you any breaking updates. up next, trigger warning for libs. patriotism is back. i'll explain. ♪

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>> laura: i know you watched the super bowl. here is my quick take. it's easy to just conclude the game was a bore. it was. and that the halftime show was one of the worst ever, which it was. and that eagles fans know how to ruin a great win. of course they do. but what happened outside the game gave us a lot of reasons to smile. first, trump showed up and you could hear the love. ♪ through the perilous fight. [cheers] over the ramparts we watched.

>> laura: second was the return of patriotic uplifting commercials. >> freedom is for everybody, but it isn't free. it's earned, real heros are humbled. >> america was founded on an idea of freedom. america has always stepped forward in time of need. protectors are born. they are not made. america's secret service protecting this super bowl is asking a few more to step forward. >> laura: i loved it for a brief moment it, felt like 1985 again. just a moment. and finally we were reminded hot real mvp is. >> god is good. highs and the lows. >> all glory to god first and foremost. >> thank god. >> thank you, jesus. >> laura: those aren't just words to them. you could feel it. they felt it. that's far more consequential than whether taylor and travis are going to survive the

reception that she received at the stadium. we will have more from behind the scenes later on in the show with raymond. president trump back at it again with another big action president trump tariffs to protect american industry. >> this is the beginning of making america rich again. putting on a 25% tariff without exception on all aluminum and all steel and it's going to mean a lot of businesses are going to be opening into the united states. but we will be talking about other subjects like cars. we'll be talking about drugs and pharmaceuticals. we'll be discussing chips. and we're going to be doing some other things in addition to that all which are bring in a lot of jobs into our country joining us ned ryun. if anyone thought he wasn't serious about tariffs he brought

that concern. what is going to mean going forward? >> well, i was encouraged to hear him talk about terrorists in regard to pharmaceuticals and chips which i believe are national security issues. this isn't a mystery, laura, he made it clear on the campaign that he was going to use tariffs to protect and build our manufacturing base and i think obviously with the steel aluminum, obviously we need the steel industry to rebuild our knave, it's an important part of our economy. and i really think what trump is doing is looking at this and going i am going to rebuild our manufacturing base. i'm going to rebuild the american economy. we are arsenal for democracy and freedom across the world. think about the fact that our manufacturing saved the world multiple times in world wars, we rose to the occasion because of our manufacturing base that allowed us to do it. and that's what trump is looking at. i'm going to rebuild this by every tool i have at my fingerprints. or if we don't do, this we'll be

week and imperiled in the future. and i love what he is doing right now. it's no history. he made it very clear what he was going to do. paint it in bold, bright colors and the american people gave him a second term in the white house. >> laura: i don't believe we had the ustr confirmed yet. u.s. trade repr rep or general counsel. these trade issues are very complex. aluminum is not the same as steel. some people who love tariffs were concerned about that today. but, nevertheless, he is serious about bringing back american manufacturing and another issue that people are talking about is when he discussed with bret baier the future of the republican party ned, check this out. >> bret: do you view vice president j.d. vance as your successor, the republican nominee in 2028? >> no. but he is very capable. i mean, i don't think that -- i think you have a lot of very capable people. so far i think he is doing a fantastic job. it's too early.

>> bret: right. >> laura: your reaction to that? >> we will see over the next four years play out. j.d. has been doing a phenomenal job. we will see where he ends up in 2028. right now the heir apparent to the america first movement 2028 i would put odds on j.d. being that person. i don't think trump wanted to fully commit to that. but i think j.d. has positioned himself very well for that. >> laura: j.d. is working his butt off in europe right now. got to keep him on his toes. everybody has to be on they're toes. that's classic trump. is that not classic trump? i actually don't mind that people are all upset about it. what is he going to say? it's over i'm already a lame duck? he is not going to say that he is trump. >> he's not going to say that he does want to see how it plays out over the next four years. really elevated himself, laura, over the last year, year and a half. >> laura: phenomenal. >> i think his rise will continue. i think it's going to be almost

not a slam dunk. nothing ever is. he will position himself very well for 2028. >> laura: all right. ned. awesome to see you. thanks so much. all right, they are deranged and they are raging. of course, against doge. new e.p. administrator lee zeldin, he's here next. epa. not just to rebuild, but to help restore the life of this community. belfor. restoring more than property.

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>> laura: are you planning on visiting d.c. any time soon? if so bring an extra bar of soap so someone can wash mad maxine. >> elon musk where are you bring your [bleep] over here. we know you are the co-president now. i want you to follow very closely what he's doing. he's a thief. he's a gangsta.

>> laura: that woman could not follow a one car funeral, okay? but, since she asked, let's do our own inventory of what elon musk is doing. doge says it's found and cut more than a billion dollars in waste so far and that includes 17 million on a project that provided tax policy advice to liberia. 182 million in contracts for hhs administrative conservatives along with hundreds of thousands in outlays to very media entities. if you were planning your summer vacay around the unveiling of the new anthony fauci exhibit at the nih museum? sorry you are out of luck. along with crucial workshop on intracan you recall diversity dialogue circle it will be cut. >> are you prepared to shut down the government to join democratic colleagues who want to stand in the way of keeping the government open? >> you have to look at what the trump administration is doing right now. they are simply trying to -- >> is that yes? >> >> they are simply trying to

dismantle the government so, yes. if we have to take steps to be able to hold them accountable, use the leverage that we have to force it. >> laura: joining me now victor davis hanson senior fellow at the hoover institution. i thought, victor, that they were not for doesn't having the normal function of government but now doge is tweeting just moments ago that the department of education cut 29 dei training grants today totaling $101 million. i can hear the cheers across america. victor, this is awesome. christmas every day. >> i think they understand that they cannot defend these expenditures, they are corrupt. they are unnecessary. many of them are probably unlawful. so they go on offense and call elon musk names. i was shocked that we have been told, laura, for the last four years that big deal, anthony fauci only routed $600,000 to wuhan through ecohealth, it

couldn't have mattered at all multi million dollars enterprise gorsuch. gain of function research, now we learned they knew u.s. aid was putting $40 millioned to the wuhan laboratory in china? and then this came out samantha power came out and said going to be happy we are cutting u.s. aid programs. they are very angry because they are not getting $40 million for their lab and not training 6,000 reporters to be anti-american fashion and we know that they were very happy that we had a gender studies program being funded at the university of kabul. so i think the chinese are going to be really angry because they thought all of the things we were doing were culturally imperialistic and against our own interest. >> laura: we are finding out, victor, that a lot of these grants, in one way or another, were dependent upon the receiving country's agreeing on

other cultural issues or maybe climate change or lgbtq. i mean, that was all kind of interwoven into these grants, which i think also is going to shock a lot of people when they find out about it. >> yeah. i think a lot of the receiving countries may not be as angry at being cut off as we think. because it's very ironic the left turned out to be 19th century cultural imperialists trying to impose their own values way out of the mainstream on these traditional societies that resented that and the money mostly went to elites anyway. that they never saw much of it. so, and you know, they keep saying elon musk, elon musk, he doesn't have a statutory role in actually making the cuts. he is an auditor. he just goes through. he says these are the things that we find wasteful. and then the president either himself or through his cabinet officers makes the actual cuts. they know that. >> laura: yeah. >> it's just a lie.

>> informal advisers. harry hopkins under the fdr lived. he moved into the white house and advised trump every day. i mean, roosevelt every day. no one thought that he was an insurrectionist. it's crazy. >> laura: they know he is not. they know they are lying. and they are lying anyway. and that's all they can do at this point, because musk is exposing them all. and trump gave him authority to do it. so that's called the executive branch. victor, thank you as always. security a at the federal agency starting to get really fed one democrat lawmakers. >> we're not [inaudible] just not answers at this point. do you understand? let's talk professionally. let's go outside, okay? does everybody understand that? >> we understand we are here to request a meeting. >> yes. >> with any and all of the doge members who are inside and the answer to that we are here to meet with the administrator of

lee zeldin to discuss what is going on with the epa program. >> they didn't get in because you can't just barge your way into government agencies demanding a meeting that's not how the world works. i thought they were about bringing normalcy back to washington. joining me now lee zeldin, epa administrator who is already can't getting rave reviews. lee, great to see you. one of the questions markey said he wanted to ask are they, meaning doge, blocking the important work that the epa does on a daily basis to protect the people of the country. to that, you say what? >> no, actually, doge is making us better. they are making us more efficient. more -- helping us to to be more accountable to the american taxpayer. they are doing good work. and it's not something where doge is coming and saying this is what has to get done at your agency. it's hey, here are our ideas. and they come up with great recommendations. and we can make a decision to

act on it. i think it's been fantastic so far. and while senator markey was at our front door, i was out in los angeles at the sites of these fires where epa is actually doing our mission, where trump gave us 30 days to remove hazardous material and crushing it on the ground and he is at the front door. who is stopping the work is that type of activity at our front door distracting our people from getting the core mission done. >> laura: about california, lee, there is also concern, however, there that the building is not going to be restoring that area to what it was. but, something much more akin to the kind of social engineering projects that a lot of conservatives have been warning about. what can you tell us about that as you do your other work there? >> that is something that we had not yet come across. as i was pointing out, our phase one mission, which president trump when he came in he did an executive order, he said get

your job done cleaning up the hazardous material within 30 days. we currently have over 1200 workers on the ground. as phase one gets done army corps at that property comes in and does phase 2. that's the debris removal. as far as that long term recovery rebuild, to your question, that's something that hasn't crossed my plate just yet. >> laura: all right. and, lee, this issue with the constant protest at federal agencies, that's -- that's a decision the democrats have made. that is their new strategy. and they believe it will change public opinion somehow by showing you all as heartless and uncaring and lacking in compassion. they are using the word authoritarian and dictator, it's back to the 2024 playbook. what are employees of your department saying to you as this -- these protests continue? >> >> they believe in the core mission. and it's important that we do the core mission, a place like

epa our mission is protecting human health and the environment. but being cognizant that the american public spoke last november with economic concerns. we have town leash american energy dominance, make america the ai capitol of the world. permitting reform. bringing bang american auto jobs. we need to get that mission done. when they're out there protesting, understand like, for example, there was $160 million went to a canadian electric vehicle manufacturer to build school buses, well, they declared bankruptcy. but they still haven't delivered $95 million worth of these busses to 55 school districts. this is just an example. we threatened all of that because we want to do something about it to stop it. >> laura: lee, you have been busy the last three weeks. come back often. thank you so much. raymond goes to the super bowl. hears from the heartland. we have big updates about something. i'm not saying it. "seen and unseen" is next. ♪

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it. >> time for "seen and unseen" where we reveal the stories behind the headlines for that we turn to raymond arroyo. i know you went down to the super bowl for more than the game. and i didn't know you had quarterback aspirations. >> we're at the nfl super bowl

experience. we thought it would be a good place to talk to americans about the issues most important to them. this super bowl its hope will bring people together. is it time to put aside our differences to gather around this game. >> yes, it is it's time. it's been time. i came to enjoy the sights. >> absolutely, i hope it's the theme of the next four years. put all the differences aside. come together, football, sports. >> absolutely. >> this is a time when you put aside everything and you just have fun. >> hello. >> the president as you know has started an effort to find waste in the government and they found everything from spending money on trans comic books to electric vehicles for vietnam. is that what we should be spending our money on as americans? >> no. oh my gosh. this is horrifying. when i found out what usaid has been financing, it's awful. >> it's amazing. money laundering operation.

it needs to all be cut out. >> the president has put this doge in place, which is finding all this government waste, but they are a number of judges now moving against his initiatives. what would you say to those judges? >> if you look at the waste that is being out and they can't see that that's wrong for this country, i think that it's a moral issue on their standpoints. >> i would say to the judges, hopefully to just put aside any of their personal differences. get behind what the country voted for. >> trump is in the seat. it is what it is. it is going to be what it is going to be. deal with it. >> raymond: one of the criticisms that elon musk shouldn't be part of it because he wasn't elected. your take? >> i think he is a very smart guy. i think he's the perfect person to be doing. this. >> i think he has done a great job so far. i'm a big elon fan and i would love to see him do more. i would love to see him do the whole four years.

>> i have been to super bowl one as a player and one as a coach. one of those energizes everyone. >> oh my god, how you cannot be here when all of the world is coming to new orleans and it's all about louisiana food. >> meantime, you get to have the president show up at an event like this, it's an exciting time and certainly when there is so much optimism in the country, and people are i think just as excited to cheer on donald trump as they are just about any sports figure. ♪ >> laura: okay. did you ever -- through the hole there? or what? where is the good throw? >> raymond: it doesn't go through. you hit the target. you don't go through. that last event was a fantastic taste of the nfl fundraiser to end student hunger. do you know what i was struck by? the unanimity of the people on all these issues right, left and

center, to modify his agenda forward,. >> laura: i like the sarah huckabee sanders. she looked great. all right. so the super bowl halftime show i gave my optimistic view of the whole thing earlier. but tell us. >> well, look. aside from, you know, they not like us in a minor it was hard to make out what was actually being said. kendrick lamar 12 minutes of rap was a musical grudge match, laura, on the biggest stage in america. most people don't know that lamar doesn't like drake or that his ex is serena williams and showed up to troll drake. the music itself is not broad enough or well-known enough to reach generations. look, we saw diana ross a few years back in new orleans. that's a multi generational audience that young, middle age, everybody could sing along because they knew the tunes. i think we got to expand this thing a little bit and get out

of this narrow lane that frankly jay-z has put us in. he has been producing these things since 2019. kendrick lamar has done two super bowls in the last three years, laura. give somebody else a chance. >> laura: maybe it's time for jay-z to maybe just move on down the road and get -- maybe give someone else a chance to do it. why not? i didn't know what he was saying. i couldn't follow. >> raymond: put carrie underwood and reba and morgan wahlen let them have a go at it. try different genres of american music that include. >> laura: a long time ago they it travis troy smith who was tr. michael jackson. they don't have many of those left. >> you are going back decades. >> laura: raymond, great to see you. when we come back, the lastil straw. ies who discovered a smarter, ♪ ve u

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>> laura: if there's one thing

that brings americans together, it is how bad it paper straws are. >> are you team team paper or plastic? >> plastic. plastic straws, i do not do paper. >> we drink a lot in new orleans, we don't mess around with paper things. >> i am team plastic, i usually carry my own, if there is no, i'm plastic straw girl. >> laura: president trump is doing what the people want. >> an executive order doing with the paper straws i you have consistently identified nobody likes paper straws. >> president trump: these things do not work, i have tried them many times, they break, they explode, we're going back to plastic straws. i think it is okay. >> laura: they explode! [laughter] radios, dana i'm sorry and

laughing, but he makes a point does he not? >> yes, the profound point is that president trump, yes, he is cutting the big things but he is also going after the little annoying things that have been the bane of our existence for how long? paper straws are a demonic curse on america, he said it appropriately. hopefully the private sector follows suit, i completely agree and people are very hard-core about their straws. you can get a corn-based straws that are like plastic but they do not melt the one that they touch liquid. this is a great! these are the little things that make our lives easier. i love it. >> laura: he is a deafening going to do the annoying toilets that he have to flush five times to get her to flush. he hates those toilets!

>> and that phosphates into the chargers, like washer dishes? i am constantly running to my dishwasher, that will be huge improvement. everything, light bulbs, are completely unflattering? horrible. i love it, the little things add up. >> laura: this kind of a nostalgic think about this in the united states, dana what about those? >> the ones that have some copper into them, keep them, but like the new ones? what is it like, 3.70 cents to make a one cent penney? it makes sense when you look at it this in terms of cost cutting. everything is on the board, no sacred cows. and pennies are gross, touching loose change, i don't want to deal with it, oleh burned my hands after it.

>> laura: do you ever wonder how many pennies are still in circulation, and couches, cup holders, under your seat? maybe retire the whole debt with how much changes sitting around people's houses. >> exactly! and like i said, call bristol has some value so savior pennies if you have those, but it makes sense considering this is our culture, our culture is saving money. >> laura: always great to see you. i will go check how much change or have been my cup holder. we will figure out how much money we have a combined. that is they differ as to nights, make sure to follow us on a social media, jesse watters takes it from here... >> jesse: welcome to 'jesse watters primetime', tonight... >> president trumpth